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Are you looking for research from scholarly journals in US/World history or Historical studies? Research library is a good place to start. This database has a ton of information- articles, books, reviews and bibliographies - and it is easy to become lost in it all. To help see the academic sources through the research, one can focus their search by topic or event and possibly limit search results to "peer review."

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Academic Search is a good all around database. It has a ton of content including peer-review sources. One can do a preliminary search on a topic to see what current research there is or what potential sources there are. Did you know? Academic Search has primary sources. To search for primary sources limit a search to "Full Text" and "Primary Source Document" under Publication Type.

This database provides first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events both national and international. How to use newspapers in historical research? Newspapers can help researchers examine social and economic conditions of places or groups, while exploring the public's opinion on important events.

Also, consider following library databases for academic books.

Books provide in-depth information on a topic. Not a finding a book on your topic? Use a book’s index to find pages that discuss your topic or scan the table of contents for book chapters. The best part about eBooks most support keyword searching so you can quickly identify the most important parts of an ebook.

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Encyclopedias are credible academic sources you can use at every stage of research. Get an overview of an unfamiliar topic, find a bibliography of important sources and gather more in-depth information. Go beyond Wikipedia start with reference databases from the library.